Date: 1633
"Our two soules therefore, which are one, / Though I must goe, endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion, / Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate."
preview | full record— Donne, John (1572-1631)
Date: 1651
"And as the Grindstone to unpolish'd Steel / Gives Edge, and Lustre: so my Mind, I feel / VVhetted, and glaz'd by Fortunes turning VVheel"
preview | full record— Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702)
Date: 1657
"But like true steel my heart doth pant, / To touch the long'd for Adamant."
preview | full record— Bold, Henry (1627-1683)
Date: 1657
"O be thou pleas'd to purge away my dross: / Calcine my soul; obliterate my sins; / And make me pure against that day begins."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1657
"Alas! alas! my flesh is too too weak, / And may be conquer'd; thou maist eas'ly break / This brittle Casket: but my inward minde / A jewel is which thou shalt never finde."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1657
"Above three thousand being hid in caves, / VVere stifled by these marble-hearted slaves."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"And in the furnace of affliction, / Their drossie souls thou dost refine"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"Our hearts all vice, as Amphitane gold draws, / The Load-stone iron, as the Amber strawes."
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"As by instinct the Loadstone draws / The iron, as the Amber straws; / So let thy grace mine heart attract, / Dear Lord!"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)
Date: 1658
"O make me have respect / To all thy righteous Laws, begin / To purge out all my dross: my Tinn / Remove far from me"
preview | full record— Billingsley, Nicholas (bap. 1633, d. 1709)